Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999–2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis

Background: Suicides by any method, plus ‘nonsuicide’ fatalities from drug self-intoxication (estimated from selected forensically undetermined and ‘accidental’ deaths), together represent self-injury mortality (SIM)—fatalities due to mental disorders or distress. SIM is especially important to exam...

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Main Authors: Ian R.H. Rockett, Eric D. Caine, Aniruddha Banerjee, Bina Ali, Ted Miller, Hilary S. Connery, Vijay O. Lulla, Kurt B. Nolte, G. Luke Larkin, Steven Stack, Brian Hendricks, R. Kathryn McHugh, Franklin M.M. White, Shelly F. Greenfield, Amy S.B. Bohnert, Jeralynn S. Cossman, Gail D'Onofrio, Lewis S. Nelson, Paul S. Nestadt, James H. Berry, Haomiao Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-02-01
Series:EClinicalMedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537021000213